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[Simmura McCrea]

I need a bigger ship. Too many crafting things to fit in.

[majikero]

Can't wait for that NPC town thing. NPC shop based on their surrounding's worth? Dwarf Fortress Ho!

[Glloyd]

Coming back to this after Beta. The server is dead, and frankly, the game is pretty boring once you get the hang of things.

My thoughts exactly. I think that I may wait until the character wipes are finished, work to endgame one more time then leave it until the more interesting mechanics of the game get fleshed out more.

[timferius]

I do my best to bring you the best! This is from Tiy's twitter:

http://imgur.com/OEqyrkQ

I like it!

[Chiefwaffles]

The concept seems awesome and I really want it, but I sure hope those aren't the final models. They feel like the same ship, but with some parts copied+pasted.

[MaximumZero]

I was really hoping for an official "design your own ship" module. I know there's the mod, but...ehhhh...I don't know about it yet.

[Elephant Parade]

The concept seems awesome and I really want it, but I sure hope those aren't the final models. They feel like the same ship, but with some parts copied+pasted.

I'm pretty sure it's just a mockup, especially since the bottom ship has inaccessible areas.

[BlackFlyme]

The characters in the final ship look like they're wearing Star Trek outfits.

[Max White]

The concept seems awesome and I really want it, but I sure hope those aren't the final models. They feel like the same ship, but with some parts copied+pasted.

They probably are the same ship.
You will notice that each upgrade only adds rooms, never removes or shuffles them around. This is likely because it extends your old ship rather than giving you a new one, meaning you won't need to worry about all your furniture.

[Chiefwaffles]

It was more of a "hope with the odds" thing, but true.

I feel that they would get better results with a modular system, perhaps. Maybe you could get a special console for your ship like the creature capture station that allows you to upgrade parts of your ship/add new parts for a hefty pixel cost?
There are really a ton of ways to do it, even with a modular system.

[Darkmere]

Yeah, it has to be the same ship with rooms added to keep furniture and storage from being overridden. If you really want a custom ship with more room, go for one of the custom ship mods (and there are more than just the self-build ones).

The way the ships work, there's basically a pixelmap "cutout" that tells the game where you can place stuff on the special world file that holds your ship. Buildable areas can't be changed on the fly without losing access to stuff in-game or simply deleting things. The official stuff has to work additively. A modular system would require them to guess how many different permutations a player could possibly want to use and make a separate pixelmap for each possible combination of upgrades on a pretty good sized buildable area and shuffle those buildmaps on the fly... Or they could do what they're doing and make the work doable with a reasonable amount of development effort.

[Kaitol]

The devs actually had it ingame at one point, pre-beta, but they hated how blocks mismatched the ship. Its probably on the backburner for now. They mentioned trying out placeable ship blocks that match.

It should still be in an old blog post if you want to check it out yourself, my memory is a bit vague.

[Chiefwaffles]

By 'upgrade', I meant doing things like maybe making the 3d printer cheaper, better fuel efficiency, a teleporter with different locations, etc. As for the new parts, I'm mainly thinking of a system where there are a certain amount of 'slots' on the ship and you can choose a slot (maybe with sizes, like Small, Medium, Large), and choose a ship part to put on that slot. It could be hard to do, but it'd definitely be possible.

Also, I notice that the human ships are vaguely similar to the Hammerhead class ships from Star Wars.

[Girlinhat]

GENTLEMEN!
http://imgur.com/r/starbound/WinWG4P
Prepare your planets for immense dwarven computing!  With logic gates comes power over the lesser beings!

[jocan2003]

GENTLEMEN!
http://imgur.com/r/starbound/WinWG4P
Prepare your planets for immense dwarven computing!  With logic gates comes power over the lesser beings!

Good lord dwarfputer all over again? Or wait.. pokepuker pokeputer.